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Schotch-Jennings Logic Prize

March 14, 2018
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Congratulations to Jeff Pelletier, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and , and Allen Hazen (Philosophy, U of Alberta) who have won the inaugural competition for the  to be awarded in June at UNILOG 2018, the Congress in Universal Logic in Vichy.

The winning entry is entitled 鈥淜3, 艁3, LP, RM3, A3, FDE, M: How to make many valued logics work for you鈥. The paper will appear in the journal Logica Universales.

The prize is named in honour of Canada鈥檚 founders of the highly-influential preservationist approach to the logic of paraconsistent theories, Peter Scotch (Philosophy, Dalhousie) and Ray Jennings (Philosophy, 大象传媒).

The S-J jurors were Bryson Brown (Lethbridge), Sandra Lapointe (McMaster), Jean-Pierre Marquis (Montr茅al), Wendy MacCaull (Acadia), with Alasdair Urquhart (Toronto) non-voting in the chair. The Schotch-Jennings Logic Prize was established by John Woods (Philosophy, UBC) and Fran莽ois Lepage (Philosophy, Montr茅al).

 

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